tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-896617505026664199.post341790312952794342..comments2018-03-09T18:07:43.483-08:00Comments on High Arka: A Short Chronology of Reverse Psychology in Recent AdvertisingHigh Arkahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14723123626955733759noreply@blogger.comBlogger12125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-896617505026664199.post-50599223132166519842017-06-01T07:23:34.839-07:002017-06-01T07:23:34.839-07:00Poverty is poverty wherever you go, sometimes it&#...Poverty is poverty wherever you go, sometimes it&#39;s fiscal, sometimes it&#39;s moral, and sometimes they&#39;re conjoined like Chang &amp; Eng Bunker.<br /><br />Wrongthinkers see only the fiscal, ignore the moral, and think moolah from Sam or one of his 50 kids (bastards all of &#39;em) or free something in lieu of direct moolah, that&#39;s the fix. Again the <i>cui bono</i> visage appears, ugly grimace pestering the uncurious.<br /><br />As to the last Q in parentheses, one might find hints by floating the appropriate 140char simulacrum in triangulated-me-land.Mork N. Myndinoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-896617505026664199.post-66013467965169176962017-05-31T16:44:12.818-07:002017-05-31T16:44:12.818-07:00No way bro, over a dozen. The one I know who didn...No way bro, over a dozen. The one I know who didn&#39;t get pregnant (before wedlock) was also the one who decided to rebel and become an atheist. Genetic disclosure though, around half of the ones I knew/know were/are Hispanic, which some might take to imply that the relevant variables are not necessarily Catholicism. <br /><br />The few Jewish girls I knew of in adolescence (a notably smaller experiential sample than Catholics) had ample birth control, so while they were potentially having more sex than the Catholics, they avoided what in theory wouldn&#39;t have been a scandal anyway. I took my experiences as indicative of some kind of secret reproductive drive imbibed via whatever Catholic education the relevant ladies were receiving--not that they were any more or less sexual than other outerclass American girls, but that they had lingering guilt over using birth control, so were more likely to break down and heroically give showy birth. <br /><br />Ironically, or maybe not, the richer the Catholic family, the higher the apparent probability that the female offspring were either (1) chaste, or (2) secretly using birth control, since they didn&#39;t have the problems and/or blessings the other ones did. Not saying it reflects anything; in this case, it really is just anecdote, not insinuation. I don&#39;t know if non-Hispanic Catholicism shows a statistical decrease or increase in teenage pregnancy...? <br /><br />(Oh god, I bet that&#39;s an illegal question to ask. Does the FBI classify Hispanic teen pregnancies as White teen pregnancies?) High Arkahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14723123626955733759noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-896617505026664199.post-83210840207155165912017-05-31T09:01:29.263-07:002017-05-31T09:01:29.263-07:00Mad Cow Disease conveys more thorough explanation ...Mad Cow Disease conveys more thorough explanation of the Judeo-Catholic: Dimwitted but extremely Jewish Rachel Maddow, who &quot;identifies as Catholic&quot;, actually is a Jewess.<br /><br />https://twitter.com/HenryMakow/status/869925399861526528<br /><br />Who in Hades ever thought Mad Cow Hank and Mad Cow Raquel were Catholic, either of them?<br /><br />No Catholic I know!Mork N. Myndinoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-896617505026664199.post-71522185679492870512017-05-31T08:55:20.423-07:002017-05-31T08:55:20.423-07:00Most of my problems with Catholicism pertain to ea...<i>Most of my problems with Catholicism pertain to early occupation, not whatever it is the distant peripheral members are doing now. </i><br /><br />Under such a convex pane of glass, any thing or person could be seen as problematic. <br /><br />I heard of a distant relative of yours, Lothario Arka, a/k/a Lo Arka, was known for impregnating young Judeans in their tents, then stealing away to his cave high in the hills until the next Tribal Caravan came through, at which time he&#39;d impregnate another one or three. Now, if this legend is true, what does it say about you, latter day scion of the Arka clan?<br /><br />Said differently, if all you want to do is pick on something, there&#39;s always plenty to find, learn, or simply mold from words-as-clay, in the background of everyone and everything.<br /><br />I once heard a person observe, <br /><br />&quot;When everyone else seems to be the problem, maybe the problem is within.&quot;<br /><br />Sufficiently Talmudic?Mork N. Myndinoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-896617505026664199.post-85264948155719807562017-05-31T08:46:17.837-07:002017-05-31T08:46:17.837-07:00in the sense that every young Catholic lass I know...<i>in the sense that every young Catholic lass I know got pregnant early out of wedlock.</i><br /><br />That suggests to me you knew but one, and she was more horny than intelligent when in season.<br /><br />The Judeans of female/XX genotype, do they ever get pregnant when young &amp; unmarried? I thought Planned Parenthood was created for them.Mork N. Myndinoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-896617505026664199.post-8721189366005759512017-05-30T20:06:33.692-07:002017-05-30T20:06:33.692-07:00This one says &quot;Judeo-Catholic&quot; to refer ...This one says &quot;Judeo-Catholic&quot; to refer to the chain of causality, not to attribute an excessive portion of agency to latter-day Catholics (not in any way intended as a Mormon-related joke). In 2017, so temporally distant from the Niceans, the vast majority of everyday Catholics are probably more likely to express themselves in a sane fashion, whether verbally or via social behavior, than a random cross-section of Europeans or Americans. There&#39;s a great difference between 500 AD and 2000 AD, but as evidenced by the current pontiff&#39;s rather brazen SJWing, the inherent utility of the institutional spirit lingers. <br /><br />I find a similarity there between military members and churchgoers. My personal experiences with Catholics are poor references, in the sense that every young Catholic lass I know got pregnant early out of wedlock. The Madonna (celebrity) effect? Or was the singer not yet, or no longer, famous then? Wikipedia could probably tell me, but in either case, I have a poor modern anecdotal draw. Most of my problems with Catholicism pertain to early occupation, not whatever it is the distant peripheral members are doing now. <br /><br />By contrast, I have great anecdotal experience with ZOG soldiers (mules to flag officers), who passionately believe in all the beautifully enunciated parts of their institutional missions, and correspondingly disagree with different perspectives on institutional origins, character, or development. <br /><br />(If it matters, I care more than the nice-sounding people.) High Arkahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14723123626955733759noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-896617505026664199.post-19238632487641430252017-05-30T12:43:10.190-07:002017-05-30T12:43:10.190-07:00I know throughout The Academic World, the unCathol...I know throughout The Academic World, the unCatholic is steamrolling things, and even w/in the RC Church, the unCatholic presently holds sway.<br /><br />What I guess I really wondered about, though, is &quot;Judeo-Catholic Advertising,&quot; and whether you suggest MadAve is rooted in the RCs and not the Judeans. <br /><br />More particularly, when did the RC Church aim at Money for Nothing?<br /><br />My bizworld travels introduced me to RC strivers, but they almost to a person relied on nose-to-grindstone, not 3-Card Monte. The Deceivers I met rarely were RC. The Oversellers, likewise. The emotional pitchmen, I only met one of those, working as a construction lawsuit plaintiff counsel, tugging heartstrings as if he were Mother Teresa&#39;s own emissary, or UNICEF&#39;s poster-lawyer.<br /><br />Typically, however -- statistically, experientially -- the Catholics weren&#39;t the Deceivers. Look at that NYC big Plaintiff&#39;s firm that got heavily whacked in late 90s/early 00s, for its manipulated claims. It wasn&#39;t O&#39;Reilly, Sughrue &amp; Mahon.Mork N. Myndinoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-896617505026664199.post-30985830882973417712017-05-27T19:28:51.045-07:002017-05-27T19:28:51.045-07:00Class Action tort lawsuits, whether personal injur...Class Action tort lawsuits, whether personal injury or financial shenanigans in focus, remind me of labor unions: theoretically, a nice bit of leverage; but in practice, a disturbing squelching of real problems in favor of ...err... favoritism. Tiered shops, upper rungs pro-Mgt because that&#39;s how you reach upper rungs, etc.<br /><br />Soh Loh Prakti-Schoner, J.D., situated in some American urban barrio, making money a thousand bucks a stickup with conjured injuries from conjured falls or traffic mishaps, employs a cruder but still distortive ruse on the legitimately injured and deserving of some kind of, well, compensation as they call it in that little niche of employment-derived bodily injury litigation.Mork N. Myndinoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-896617505026664199.post-63227533795496863322017-05-27T12:31:18.419-07:002017-05-27T12:31:18.419-07:00Quite so. The forming of &quot;class action&quot;...Quite so. The forming of &quot;class action&quot; suits seems designed to take significant lawsuits out of the hands of the general population of tort lawyers at large, and put them into the hands of a small group that, otherwise, would not condescend to sit through information-gathering meetings with all of the sick little people. Letter from a judge, though, telling Joe Lung Cancer that his new lawyers are Garbanks and Smear, and bingo, no need to shake a bunch of filthy hands. High Arkahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14723123626955733759noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-896617505026664199.post-47034081374982357002017-05-27T12:29:06.146-07:002017-05-27T12:29:06.146-07:00I&#39;ve no doubt you can find good people, even g...I&#39;ve no doubt you can find good people, even great ones, inside most systems. I know good American cops, good American soldiers, and good American office workers. <br /><br />The relationship a sane person in Los Angeles or Portland has to the zeitgeist of either city, though, is dubious at best. Certainly as Catholicism became settled in Europe, it began to be a conduit for the locals&#39; perspectives, and in time, context removed, could appear to be an expression of European paganism, among other traits healthier than those of its sources. <br /><br />Recently, anecdotally, I think you&#39;re still essentially correct. The central committees&#39; plans are often resisted by a comparative diamond here and there, or ideological wiggle room exploited to good effect. I see no reason, though, to attribute to the DMV itself any of the merits of a DMV employee who can hand-correct a form and stamp something inside of a couple minutes. High Arkahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14723123626955733759noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-896617505026664199.post-45979651190718427672017-05-27T08:12:01.125-07:002017-05-27T08:12:01.125-07:00One might see the purpose of tobacco litigation as...One might see the purpose of tobacco litigation as rewarding plaintiffs&#39; lawyers without punishing the defendants in the least.<br /><br />One might see a lot of tort litigation that way, if one worked in that field for, say, at least 5 years.Mork N. Myndinoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-896617505026664199.post-85218315221544701592017-05-27T08:09:01.781-07:002017-05-27T08:09:01.781-07:00Great angle, the discussion of tobacco litigation ...Great angle, the discussion of tobacco litigation and the wet noodle lashes sold as &quot;punishment&quot; earned by the tobacco companies. Similar results re Exxon, Prince William Sound spill. Big sales pitch of &quot;brutal penalties&quot; but Exxon sails away as if its tanker never cracked open and oil never spilled.<br /><br />Kinda wonder about the impugning of the Catholics here, though. I&#39;ve attended all kinds of schools and the best education I got was from Catholics, without question. No stilted, stifled, bridled&amp;bitted inquiry, no hemmed in &quot;reality&quot; from those folks where I was learning. Far from it, in fact. Mostly the opposite. Cramped views, narrow mindedness, inability to doubt/question: not rewarded. Maybe that&#39;s because I finished schooling a few decades back and it&#39;s changed meantime?Mork N. Myndinoreply@blogger.com